Richard Holbrooke: “Our objective for the London Conference is clear: to demonstrate the international community's support for Afghanistan's…”

The reason we consider it one of, if not the, highest strategic priority of this administration is because they directly threaten us.

When we met with them, they told us that Punjabi military coming into a Pashtun area are as alien as it would be if they were NATO troops.

Why are we in Afghanistan? The short, simple answer is: 9/11, direct threats to our national security interests.

We are in Afghanistan and Pakistan because of 9/11, because al-Qaeda and its allies are camped out in western Pakistan.